Singer-songwriter Tim Higgins and textile artist Aaron Sanders Head will hold a joint show at the Greensboro Opera House at 3:00 on Sunday, July 23. As with the previous events in this series, admission will be free and a reception will follow.
Tim Higgins was raised in both Michigan and coastal Alabama, and Aaron Sanders Head in rural Alabama, but both, though they travel widely performing and exhibiting their art, now make their home in Greensboro.
Higgins’s songs are described as “songs which spiral around issues dealing with love, loss, destruction, and history,” and, though they are personal, they “often carry broader social implications.” “Blight,” his first single and the title song of his full-length album, was released in 2018 and was included in Rolling Stone magazine’s Best New Country/ Americana Music. This video was actually filmed and recorded in Greensboro, in part in the theatre upstairs in the Opera House, and “showcases, the beauty, decline, and revitalization of the area.” His performance at the Opera House will include a showing of this video.
Head is a visual artist working in textiles through which he translates the experiences of rural Alabama. Head’s works are in the form of hand-stitched, naturally dyed panels and quilts which constitute a “unique visual language” through which he uses “the familiarity of textiles and quilts as a mode of storytelling.” “My works,” says Head, “are a testimony to the generous, fierce, natural beauty of Alabama, and a result of the ever-adaptable roots that radical people have fostered for generations in the Black Belt.” Head has exhibited widely and comes to the Opera House directly following exhibitions in Tuscaloosa at the Indigo Hotel and Kentuck.
The joint performance-exhibition by Higgins and Head is the latest in the Opera House’s “Encore 2023,” a continuing series of events celebrating the Opera House’s 120th anniversary in conjunction with Greensboro’s bicentennial. The next event in the series will be a performance by the Market Street Jazz Band of Demopolis on Sunday, August 6th. This will be followed by a variety other events whose scheduling dates are currently being finalized.
